Mechanism for punching jacquard-cards.



PATENTED JULY 30, 1907.

V. & V. E. ROYLE & J. WHITBHBAD. MECHANISM FOR PUNGHING JAGQUARD CARDS.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 1, 1905.

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MECHANISM FOR PUNGHING JACQUARD CARDS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT orrrcn.

VERNON ROYLE AND VERNON E. BOYLE, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, AND JAMESWHITE- HEAD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA; SAID WHITEHEAD ASSIGNOR TOJOHN ROYLE & SONS, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

MECHANISM FOR PUNCI' IING J ACQUARD-CARDS.'

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed November 1,1905. Serial No. 285,367.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VERNON BOYLE and VERNON E. BOYLE, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of Paterson, in the county of Passaic andState of New Jersey, and J AMES WHITEHEAD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Mechanism forPunching J acquard- Cards, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to mechanism for punching jacquard cards, and moreparticularly to the means for controlling the selecting needles whichoperate the punch locking and releasing dogs.

The object is to provide for interchanging a gang of auxiliary selectingneedles which operate on the main set of selecting needles and for thereversal of the pattern in a simple and effective manner, and with theseends in view our invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointedout in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of somuch of a jacquard card punching machine as will suffice to show ourinvention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in longitudinal vertical section,the mechanism for reciprocating the auxiliary needle roller beingomitted, Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same, Fig. 4 is an endelevation with the operating grid removed, Fig. 5 is a partial sideelevation, Fig. 6 is a view in elevation in detail of the reversiblegrid, Fig. 7 is a partial horizontal section of the grid in the plane ofthe line A-A of Fig. 6, Fig. 8 is an enlarged view in detail showing theconnection of the two sections of a main selecting needle, Fig. 9 is anenlarged view in detail showing the stop collar on a main selectingneedle, and Fig. 10 is an enlarged view in detail showing V the eye inone of the auxiliary selecting needles for receiving a main selectingneedle.

The gang of punches is denoted by 1, their locking and releasing dogs by2, the vibrating arms which connect the dog operating wires 3 with themain selecting needles 4 are denoted by 5, the box for containing themain selecting needles by 6, the bed frame by 7 and the bed plate towhich the vibrating arms 5 are pivoted is denoted by 8. These parts maybe of well known or approved form and may be operated as usual except ashereinafter described in their relation to the gang of auxiliaryselecting needles to which our present invention is more particularlydirected.

At one end of the gang of main selecting needles, in the presentinstance at that end which we term the rear, we locate a gang ofauxiliary selecting needles, arranged to reciprocate vertically. Theseauxiliary selecting needles are denoted by 9 and each is provided withan eye 10 which embraces an extension 11 of a main selecting needle 4.The extension 11 is removably secured to the body of the main selectingneedle by means of a sleeve 12, made fast on the end of the body 4 andadapted to receive the end of the extension 11 with a close sliding fit.

The gang of auxiliary selecting needles 9 is supported in a boxconsisting of a bottom plate 13, resting throughout a portion of itswidth, on the bottom of a recess 14 at the rear end of the plate 8, theedge of the plate 13 being entered in an undercut recess 15 in thevertical wall of the recess 14 and the said bottom plate 13 is removablysecured in position by means of screws 16 extending through it into theplate 8.

To the plate 13 two end plates 17 and 18 are secured and between theupper portions of these end plates a skeleton frame 19 is fastened, itstop consisting of a series of wires 20 extending longitudinally of theframe for spacing the auxiliary selecting needles. A series of verticalwires 21 connect the front side of the frame 19 with the bottom plate13, to guide the extensions 11 of the main selecting needles againsthorizontal displacement and a set of horizontal wires 22 connect thefront edges of the end plates 17, 18, to guide the extensions 11 againstvertical displacement. In like manner the rear edges of the end plates17, 18, are connected by a set of horizontal wires 23 and vertical wires24 connect the rear side of the frame 19 with the bottom plate 13, toform guides for the extensions 11 on the main selecting needles.

Each vertical needle 9 is engaged with an extension 11 by means of theeye 10 so that a vertical movement of a needle 9 will carry with it anextension 11, the main selecting needles and their extensions being freeto rise and fall with the vertical needles, the only point where theyare held being at or near their front ends where they pass between thehorizontal wires 25 and are gripped by the friction blocks 26 as isusual.

A bumper 27 carried by the longitudinally reciprocating rods 28 and 29at their forward portions, serves to return the main selecting needlesto their normal positions with punches 1 all locked while a grid carriedby the said rods 28 and 29 at their opposite ends serves to slide suchmain needles as are lifted by the vertical or auxiliary needles 9 in adirection to unlock the punches.

The needle operating grid referred to, consists of an oblong frame 30,having its upper and lower sides connected by uprights 31 and 32 madeL-shape in cross section as shown in Fig. 6, with their rear branches orI legs provided with series of slots 33. The slots 33 receive thereduced ends 34 of a series of fiat bars 35 hav ing their rear edgesprojected to form shoulders or hooks 36 for engaging the ends of theextensions 11 of the main selecting needles. The opposite ends of theframe are each provided with a pair of perforated ears 37, 38, for thereception of pintles 39 which serve to removably secure the grid to-thebifurcated supporting pieces 40, 41, on the ends of the rods 28, 29. Thegrid 30, etc., is so arranged that the extensions 11 rest normally onthe backs or non-shouldered sides of the bars in position to be raisedby the needles 9 into position, (see dotted line, Fig. 2) where theshoulder or hook 36 will engage their ends on the forward movement ofthe grid and thereby operate the punch locking dogs. The grid is alsomade with a view of reversing it, placing it up side down, with thehooks or shoulders 36 extending upwardly and when so employed thoseextensions 11 which are lifted by the needles 9 will be removed fromengagement by the said shoulders 36 and hence the exact reverse of thepattern will be punched with no other change in parts except the simplereversal of the grid.

The auxiliary needles 9 are operated by the pattern card carried by theroller 42 as is usual, the roller 42 being for this purpose locatedbelow the gang of needles 9 and moved toward and away from their ends asthe successive pattern cards are fed into position. The needles 9 aregripped by a series of tension blocks 43, resting on the bars 20, andacting on the needles in a manner quite similar to that in which thetension blocks 26 act upon the main selecting needles 4, and the saidneedles 9 are returned by a bumper 44 supported by rods 45, 46, whichreciprocate in sockets 47, 48, on the end plates 17, 18. The rods 45,46, are connected by links 49, 50, with arms 51, 52, on a rock shaft 53,the latter being rocked at suitable intervals by means of an operatingrod 54 connected with an arm 55 on the shaft. The roller 42 carrying thepattern card for operating the auxiliary needles is suitably supportedin rotary adjustment on a vertically reciprocating slide 56 mounted inways 57 fixed to the machine frame. The slide 56 carries spur wheels 58,59, intermeshing with each other, the wheel 58 also intermeshing with apinion 60 on the roller shaft. 1

A bell crank lever pivoted at 61 has one arm 62 connected with aneccentric 63 on the main drive shaft 64 by means of a rod 65, and theother arm 66 of the hell I crank lever carries a pawl 67 which may bethrown into engagement with either the spur wheel 58 or 59 to rotate theroller 42 in one direction or another, as the bell crank lever isrocked.This particular feature of rotating the roller in either of two oppositedirections by the spur wheels and pawl is already well known in the art,this present invention being directed to the means for reciprocating theslide 56 as follows :-A rock shaft 68, journaled in a suitable supportbelow the ways 57, is provided with a crank arm 69 connected with theslide by a pitman 70. The rock shaft also has fixed'to rock therewith apinion 71 which is engaged by a toothed sector 72, fixed to rock with ashaft 73 on which the bell 'crank lever 74 is carried for impartingmotion to the rod 54 hereinabove referred to. The bell crank lever 74has its depending arm connected with an eccentric 75 on the drive shaftby a rod 76. The said depending arm of the bell crank lever is providedwith an elongated slot 77 for connecting the rod to the arm at differentdistances from the axis of the lever and hence providing for varying thethrow of the toothed sector 72 and the stroke of the slide 56.

The box containing the auxiliary selecting needles and extensions of themain selecting needles may be readily removed together with the saidauxiliary needles and extensions and the grid 30, etc., may be removedand replaced by another.

By preparing different gangs of auxiliary needles and substituting onefor another, and using the operating grid either in its normal orreversed position with each gang, a great variety of designs may bepunched from a single chain of pattern cards.

What we claim is:

1. The combination with a gang of main selecting needles and punchesunder their control, of a pattern card roller, a gang of auxiliaryselecting needles removabl'y engaged as a gang with the main selectingneedles and under the control of the pattern card and means for op.-erating the main selecting needles.

2. The combination with a gang of main selecting needles and punchesunder their control, of a needle box containing auxiliary selectingneedles engaged with the main selecting; needles, the said needle boxbeing removably secured in position, means for supporting a pattern cardin position to operate upon the auxiliary selecting;

needles.

The combination with a gang of main selecting needles provided withremovable extensions and punches under the control of the main selectingneedles, of a needle operating device in position to engage the saidextensions, a gang of auxiliary selecting needles engaged as a gang withsaid extensions and means for supporting a pattern card in position toengage the auxiliary selecting needles.

4. The combination with a gang of niain selecting needles arranged toreciprocate horizontally and punches under their control, of -aremovable gang of auxiliary selecting needles engaged with the mainselecting needles and arranged to reciprocate vertically, meansforplacing the auxiliary selecting needles under the control of apattern card and means for operating the maiuselecting needles.

5. The combination with two gangs of selecting needles arranged at anangle to each other, one gang being, removably supported with itsmembers engaged with the memheisof the other gang and punches under thecontrol of the selecting needles, of means for placing one gang underthe control of a pattern card and means for operating the other gang.

6. The combination with a gang of main selecting needles gripped at oneend and free to move laterally at their opposite ends, of a removablegang of auxiliary selecting needles arranged to move the free ends ofthe main selecting needles laterally, an operating device arranged tomove the main selecting needles endwise and means for sustaining apattern card in position to operate on the auxiliary selecting needles.

7. The combination with the main selecting needles and the auxiliaryselecting needles arranged to move the mainselecting needles laterally,of a reversible grid for operating the main selecting needles and meansfor bring ing a pattern card into engagement with the auxiliaryselecting needles.

8. The combination with a horizontal gang of selecting needles and avertical gang of selecting needles removably.

said extensions to operate the main selecting needles and means forbringing a pattern card into position to operate the auxiliary selectingneedles.

10. The combination with a gang of main selecting needles, of aremovable needle box provided with auxiliary selecting needles securedin operative relation to the gang of main selecting needles, the saidneedle box being provided with wire guides at its front and back,removable extensions on the main selecting needles extending throughsaid front and back, means for operating the main selecting needles andmeans for operating the auxiliary selecting needles.

11. The combination with a gang of main. selecting needles, of aremovable needle box provided with a gang of auxiliary selectingneedles, means for frictionally gripping the auxiliary needles at theirupper ends, the auxiliary selecting needles being connected with themain selecting needles to move the main selecting needles laterally,means for placing the auxiliary needles under the control of a patterncard and means for operating the main selecting needles longitudinally.

12. The combination with a gang of mainselecting needles and a removablegang of auxiliary selecting needles engaged therewith and operating in adirection transverse thereto, 01 a grid comprising a series of hooked orshouldered bars in position to engage the main selecting needles andoperate them and means for supporting a pattern card in position tooperate the auxiliary selecting needles to throw the main selectingneedles into or out of engagement with the shouldered or hooked bars onthe grid.

13. The combination with a gang of selecting needles, a roller forcarrying a pattern card in position to. operate the needles and-a slidefor supporting the roller, of vibrating gear connected with the slideand with a source of power, for operating the slide and means forvarying the stroke of the vibrating gear.

1-1. The combination with a gang of selecting needles, a roller forcarrying a pattern card in position to operate the needles and a slidefor supporting the roller, of a rock shaft, a pinion thereon, a crankthereon, a connection between the crank and slide, a toothed sectorarranged to inter-mesh with the pinion and mounted to swing and meansfor operating the toothed sector.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing as our invention, we havesigned our names in presence of two wit nesses, this 29th day ofSeptember, 1905.

VERNON BOYLE. VERNON E. BOYLE. JAMES \VHITEHEAD.

